Casting apparatus.



No. 650,373. Patented May 29, |900 n. T. CROXTON.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent tie. 650,373, dated May 29, 1906, Application filed April '7, 1899. Serial No. 712,138. (No model;)

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, DAVID T. CROXTON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Canal Dover, in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Casting Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a casting apparatus; and it consists in additional improvements on Patent No. 620,020, granted to Roderick \V. Davies February 21, 1899, and others of like character.

This improvement has for its object to provide means for receiving, conveying, cooling, and loading the castings onto railway-cars or into other-suitable receptacles simultaneously and by a continuous operation and by the same power or otherwise that operates the casting apparatus.

The nature and operations of this improvement willfully appear from the subjoined description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan view of the aforesaid casting apparatus, my improvements being located underneath it. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a part of the apparatus, showing the mold-support at the left in section, also showing a part of the circular railway-track and the cars that travel thereon, which receive and convey the ingots deposited thereon. Fig. '3 is a side elevation of the middle portion of the apparatus, showing the railway-track and cars thereon, having ingots thereon, also showing the water-tank in section and the track depressed therein, through which the cars are traversed for cooling the ingots in transit. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a part of the apparatus opposite that of Fig. 3, showing the track having the inner rail elevated on an inclination for tilting the cars as they traverse said track for the purpose of discharging the ingots therefrom and depositing them into other railway-cars.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views.

A represents the rim of the wheel which supports the rotatable molds M M, which comprises the main feature of the said casting apparatus, Patent No. 620,020. My improvements, which operate conjunctively with said apparatus, are described as follows: 1

Under the rim of the wheel A is provided a rail-track B. I

C is a water-tank, in the bottom of which a portion of the track is located, the track be ing depressed by means of inclines into each end of the tank. The purpose of the water tank is for cooling the castings, as hereinaf ter described.

D D are cars or trucks coupled together to form a continuous or endless conveyer, which may be connected to the wheel by chainsaw or other suitable means, whereby they may be hauled to travel upon the said track simul= taneously with the movements of the wheel.

E, Fig. 4, represents the inner rail of the track raised in a curved line, by means'of which the cars will be tilted in passing over it for discharging their loads by letting the castings slide off. At the side of the track may be located a bar or scraper G, which projects over the cars sufficiently to start the castings sliding in case of sticking or other causes.

From the foregoing the operations of this improvement are as follows: The casting apparatus is designed specially for casting metal into pigs in successive order, the revolving of the wheel giving time for the metal to partly cool. carried approximately a complete revolution, they are overturned and the pigs are dropped onto the cars, they are again conveyed around a second time, during which they are carried through the tank of water and are cooled off, and next they are discharged by the tilting of the cars riding over the inclined track. Thus the operations of casting the pigs, droping them from the molds onto the receiver, conveying them, cooling them, and depositing them into suitable receptacles are all performed by one continuous and complete operation.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In casting apparatus, in combination, a rotary wheel, molds rotatably mounted thereon, a track located beneath the castingmolds, cars or trucks coupled in a continuous endless chain and connected to the rim of the When the molds have been tank, and a portion of the rail on inside of 15 the track elevated in a curved line, the arrangement being such that as the cars are drawn to travel on said track they will pass throughthe tank for cooling the iron and also be tilted in passing over the elevated rail for 20 unloading the cars,substantially as described. Signed by me at Cleveland, Ohio, this 3d day of April, 1899.

DAVID T. CROXTON.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. TIBBITTs, FRANK A. BEECHER. 

